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ME310 Aalto Paperbike Epic Race will be held on the 19th of October @ Alvarin Aukio. Everyone is invited to come and see our cool bikes!

The Paper Bike rally is a challenge given every year in the beginning of the ME310 – Global Design Innovation course taught at Aalto Design Factory.

Teams of 3-4 students are given two weeks to build a ”bike” (essentially any vehicle) made almost entirely out of paper products and compete in a given challenge.

This year, the challenge is an race where the teams face many of the hazards of cycling. The paper vehicles will go toe to toe around a track with varying obstacles, with the goal of completing the race in the last amount of time.

Students will first compete in qualifying heats to gather points to earn a place in the final, where they will then race one-on-one to decide the 2017 champion!

ME310 Aalto is a global human-centered product and service innovation program, where interdisciplinary student teams get together to solve real life corporate challenges by following Stanford University’s Design Thinking methods.

It is time for the culmination of the year of ME310 -course at Aalto! Join us at the final presentations where the students share a story of their learnings, their challenges and the results of 9 months of hard work. They walk you through their extensive need finding, benchmarking, ideation, prototyping, user testing and validation all the way to their final solution. Afterwards, at the expo you get to put yourself in the shoes of their users and experience their final concepts yourself. Join us to learn what a year as an ME310er is like and the awesome ways in which the students are making the difference in the world!

PROJECTS
OP – Enabling SMEs to plan and shape their own future
BASF – Harnessing the intelligence of a community to enable better decision making for individual farmers
Xylem – Providing volunteers accessible tools to monitor the cleanliness of waterbodies
Roland Garros – Creating a new social media product for sharing tennis enthusiasm